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Blockchain SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol

Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his early 20s when he co-founded Radish Fiction Inc., a US-based mobile fiction platform, in ...

Tech, Media & Telecom RaonSecure wins order for Indonesia's digital ID project

South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. announced on Tuesday that it secured a project for Indonesia's integrated digital identity (ID) servi...

Metaverse S.Korea's RaonSecure establishes metaverse subsidiary

South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. announced Wednesday it established RaonMeta, a generative AI-based metaverse platform subsidiary. Rao...

Tech, Media & Telecom Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

South Korea’s information technology and game companies are rushing to the Middle East to seek global growth drivers as the oil-rich countries...

Blockchain Nexon opens blockchain game corporations in UAE

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. opened its corporations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the end of last year to str...

Blockchain SK C&C to build Hana Securities STO system

South Korea's SK C&C announced on Tuesday that it will supply its blockchain service platform ChainZ Security Token (ChainZ ST) to build the sys...

Fintech S.Korea's FNS Value to enter Malaysian fintech market

South Korea's FNS Value announced on Thursday a collaboration agreement with the Malaysian big data technology company Big Dataworks. The two compan...

Tech, Media & Telecom Krafton, Naver eye Overdare as S.Korea's answer to Roblox

South Korea's game company Krafton Inc. and Naver Z, a metaverse unit of the country’s portal giant Naver Corp. on Thursday said they will u...

Blockchain FNSValue, UN agency to provide passwordless authentication for fintech

South Korean blockchain company FNSValue Co. on Monday signed a partnership agreement with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Unit...

Korean games WeMade partners with three companies for WEMIX Play onboarding

South Korea's game developer and publisher WeMade Co. announced on Friday that it has signed onboarding agreements with several domestic and interna...

Blockchain SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compa...

KOREA Investment Week S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

South Korea’s largest investment conference will be held in Seoul Sept. 11-15 with around 100 chief executives from global financial services ...

Carbon neutrality Hyundai, Kia deploy CO2 emission monitor system for cooperative firms

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. revealed on Friday their AI-integrated, blockchain-enabled Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SC...

Fintech Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...

Automobiles Renault Korea creates mobility exhibition hall in metaverse

Renault Korea announced on Friday that it plans to establish and run an automobile-related experiential space called Renault Korea Hub in the metave...

Waste management SK C&C to develop solution to prevent recycling fraud

SK C&C, an information and communications technology affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, on Thursday said it is developing a system for t...

Blockchain WeMade signs MOU with Ministry of Investment Saudi Arabia

South Korea's game publisher WeMade Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Investment ...

Blockchain Blockchain game startup Gomble gets seed round

South Korean blockchain gaming startup Gomble announced on Monday that it has successfully secured its first institutional investment. The seed fund...

Blockchain Netmarble unveils Union Tokenomics for Marblex's MBX ecosystem

Netmarble Corp. announced on Thursday that its blockchain subsidiary Marblex has launched the Union Tokenomics, token economic system for the MBX ec...

Metaverse S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is slated to establish a joint venture with Naver Z Corp., a metaverse unit of the country&rs...

Cryptocurrencies WeMade sets up blockchain corporation in UAE

WeMade Co., South Korea's game developer and publisher and the issuer of cryptocurrency WeMix, set up WeMix MENA Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates (U...

Shipping & Shipbuilding Samsung Heavy obtains blockchain security certificate

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. announced the successful development of a cyber-security solution for autonomous ships using blockchain t...

Blockchain Blockchain co. Reality Reflection's board to discuss mangement reshuffle

The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market.&nb...

Korean games NCSOFT invests $15 million in blockchain company Mysten Labs

NCSOFT Corp., which announced early this year plans to install non-fungible token (NFT) technology in the global version of its online role-playing ...

Blockchain Blockchain-based messenger 'Block Chat' debuts

South Korea's Blockchain Labs, which developed the Coov app for electronic certification for vaccination against COVID-19, on Tuesday said it has re...

Cryptocurrencies Crypto exchange Binance to work with Busan on blockchain

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced on Friday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

Korean games Oasys aims to be blockchain gateway for S.Korean game developers

Singapore-based Oasys has an ambitious goal to revolutionize the gaming industry by making blockchain games cheaper to develop and faster to play &n...

Korean games DeFi platform Neopin unveils plan for Web 3.0, NFT, multichain services

Blockchain firm Neopin announced its strategy to strengthen its foothold in the global DeFi Market on Thursday with four keywords: Web 3.0, multicha...

Korean games Blockchain game developer Planetarium Labs raises $32 mn 

Planetarium Labs raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, led by Animoca Brands, and joined by Samsung Next, WeMade, and Krust Universe.The s...

The KED View Terra debacle: For whom the blockchain bell tolls

In capitalism and the market economy, one’s monetary compensation is measured by his or her degree of contribution to improving the lives of o...